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[[File:Safari 15.png|thumb|right|A web browser ([[Safari (web browser)|Safari]]) displaying a [[web page]]]]
A '''web browser''', (often shortened to '''browser'''), is an [[Application software|application]] for accessing [[web pages]] and [[web navigation|navigating the Internet]]. When a [[User (computing)|user]] visits a [[website]], the browser requests the web page from a [[web server]] and displays it. Browsers can also be used to access web pages [[hosts (file)|hosted]] on the local [[filesystem]] (often called [[localhost]]) or [[Computer network|network]] configuration pages.
Browsers are used on a range of devices, including [[desktop computer|desktops]], [[laptop]]s, [[tablet computer|tablets]], and [[smartphone]]s and [[Video game console|consoles]]. As of 20252024, the most used browsers worldwide are [[Google Chrome]] (6665–66% [[market share]]), [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] (1815–17%), [[Microsoft Edge|Edge]] (5.2–6.6%), [[Firefox]] (32.5–3.9%), [[Samsung Internet]] (2.2–2.7%), and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] (21.5–2.1%), [[UC Browser]] (0.41–0.82%), [[Yandex Browser]] (0.38–1.16%), [[Huawei Browser]] (0.19%), [[DuckDuckGo Private Browser]] (0.17%), [[QQ Browser]] (0.15%), [[Mi Browser]] (0.15%), [[Naver Whale]] (0.08%), [[Aloha Browser]] (0.06%), [[Avast Secure Browser]] (0.05%), [[Vivaldi (web browser)|Vivaldi]] (0.02%), [[AVG (web browser)|AVG]] (0.02%) and others (0.06%).<ref name="statcounter">{{cite web |title=Browser Market Share Worldwide |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share |access-date=21 March 2025 |publisher=[[StatCounter]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Browser Market Share Report for 2024 Q1|website=cloudflare.com|publisher=Cloudflare, Inc.|date=May 3, 2024|url=https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2024-q1|access-date=March 22, 2025}}</ref> As of 2023, an estimated 5.4 billion people had used a browser.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Internet Users Statistics and 2023 World Population Stats|url=https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523140912/https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm|access-date=21 March 2025 |website=www.internetworldstats.com|archive-date=23 May 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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